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• Tustin man killed after Lake Elsinore standoff threatened 'massacre,' restraining order says

  20-01-2017 08:23 via ocregister.com
  
  The Tustin man killed by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies during a violent standoff last week went on a verbal tirade to his family during a recent birthday party, saying at one point, “Don’t be surprised if there is a massacre.”
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• Plan to kill Catalina deer using sharpshooters in copters is opposed by county

  24-04-2024 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  A plan to kill all the mule deer on Catalina Island using aerial sharpshooters from helicopters was strongly opposed by the Los Angels County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, April 23.
  The controversial program as proposed by the Catalina Island Conservancy aims to eradicate up to 2,000 deer on the island that the conservancy says are destroying the island’s native plants and animals and damaging the entire ecosystem.
  “Eradicating Catalina Island’s entire population of more tha
  
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• Haiti’s fragile health system nearing collapse as chaos grips country

  24-04-2024 01:25 via ocregister.com
  
  By Danica Coto | Associated Press
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her.
  They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine while keeping their eyes on a computer screen that reflected a dangerously low oxygen level of 84%.
  No one knew what was wrong with her.
  Even more worrisome, the Doctors Without Bo
  
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• USC football gets another crosstown transfer from UCLA in WR Kyle Ford

  24-04-2024 01:23 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Kyle Ford threw up the white flag on social media, offering a brief plea for forgiveness after switching sides 15 miles west.
  “Trippin’ lol, let’s get to work” the receiver wrote, in the comments of an On3 post announcing he had transferred to USC. “I’ll make it up to y’all.”
  Indeed, just a season after transferring from USC to cross-town rival UCLA, Ford is back at USC – a move that seemed destined since he was spotted at
  
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• OC Fair 2024: Tash Sultana, Cannons, X and Squeeze are coming to Pacific Amphitheatre

  24-04-2024 01:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Pacific Amphitheatre has announced four additional shows for its 2024 OC Fair season lineup.
  Tash Sultana, the psychedelic and reggae soul artist, is performing at the venue on Wednesday, July 10 with support from Chiiild. The indie-pop group Cannons will take the stage on Wednesday, July 24. The punk-rock group X will take over with support from Reverend Horton Heat and Jonny Two Bags on Sunday, July 28. Lastly, Squeeze and Boy George will co-headline on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
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• Reunited and it feels so good: Voyager 1 is talking sense again

  24-04-2024 01:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Rocket science? Brain Surgery? A rescue mission?
  Reconnecting with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft was all of that for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, where months of concern and intense troubleshooting turned to smiles and relief this week.
  That’s because the Voyager team at the sprawling Southern California lab on April 20 finally heard back from Voyager 1 again, in a way that was more than just gibberish. It wasn’t ET calling home. But it was our own scien
  
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• Swanson: Is Jayden Daniels proof the Inland Empire is the new QB capital?

  24-04-2024 01:09 via ocregister.com
  
  I’m telling you; the Inland Empire has a lot going on.
  Snowboarding and golf and freestyle motocrossing routes – hitting receivers in stride.
  Citrus fields and wineries and NFL talent worth the squeeze; real juice.
  Film festivals and Coachella sets, ready … hike: a regular presence these days at Heisman Trophy ceremonies.
  Some bright sports stars have been discovered out that way; i.e. Bobby and Barry Bonds; Cheryl Miller and her little brother, Reggie; Kawhi Leonard; Bob Lemo
  
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• ‘Save her, and if you can’t, save my daughter,’ dad told paramedics

  24-04-2024 00:58 via ocregister.com
  
  James Alvarez recalled the chilling moment he saw a sport-utility vehicle careening toward him and his pregnant wife on their nightly walk along a sidewalk in Anaheim nearly four years ago.
  The couple took daily walks during the pregnancy.
  “The only difference that day was we took a different route,” Alvarez said. “We took the long way home.”
  He heard screams from the nearby shopping center as a SUV lost control.
  Clutching the hand of his 23-year-old wife, Yesenia Lisette
  
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• Athens skies turn orange as dust clouds engulf the Greek capital

  24-04-2024 00:57 via ocregister.com
  
  Associated Press
  ATHENS, Greece — Skies over southern Greece turned an orange hue on Tuesday as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks.
  Strong southerly winds carried the dust from the Sahara Desert, giving the atmosphere of the Greek capital a Martian-like filter in the last hours of daylight.
  The skies are predicted to clear on Wednesday as winds shift and move the dust, with temperatures dipping. On Tuesday, the
  
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• Ousted fabulist Santos ends his long-shot bid to return to Congress

  24-04-2024 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  By Rashard Rose | CNN
  Former New York Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from the House and is facing federal charges, said he is withdrawing his bid for Congress in New York’s 1st District.
  “I have decided to withdraw from my independent run for #NY1…I don’t want my run to be portrayed as reprisal against Nick Lalota… Although Nick and I don’t have the same voting record and I remain critical of his abysmal record, I don’t want to split th
  
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• What to know about Caleb Williams before the NFL draft

  24-04-2024 00:22 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — When the cameras are gone, as trainer Will Hewlett says – and anyone who has been in the orbit will add – Caleb Williams is just one of the guys.
  The quarterback has spent the better part of two months in pre-draft training Florida, by Hewlett’s admission, bounding around the field in old football shorts he’s kept from days at Gonzaga College High in his hometown of Washington, D.C. Kicking it up in New Balances. Chopping it up and trading good-natured
  
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• Kings’ woes ‘fixable’ in Game 2 in Edmonton, Hiller says

  23-04-2024 23:50 via ocregister.com
  
  The Kings anticipated another playoff matchup with the Edmonton Oilers this season and envisioned it as being different from the past two years, when the Oilers sent them to golf tees and fishing boats in successive springs.
  Ahead of Sunday’s Game 2 in Canada, there was little from Friday’s Game 1 to support any turning of the tide.
  For the Kings, there was to be a toothier penalty kill, and during the regular season there was, as their PK ascended from 24th to second in the NHL.
  The
  
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• Gang member tied to West Covina shooting of deputy is arrested just south of Orange County, sheriff says

  23-04-2024 23:42 via ocregister.com
  
  A 47-year-old suspected gang member was in custody on Tuesday, April 23, on suspicion of various crimes and authorities say they believe he also shot a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in the back as the motorcycle officer was stopped at a red light in West Covina the day before.
  The California Highway Patrol arrested Raymundo Duran on suspicion of driving drunk and a weapons possession near the San Onofre Inspection facility in San Diego County, Sheriff Robert Luna said during a Tuesda
  
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• It began with defiance at Columbia. Now students nationwide are upping their Gaza war protests

  23-04-2024 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  By NICK PERRY and KAREN MATTHEWS 
  NEW YORK — What began last week when students at a New York Ivy League school refused to end their protest against Israel’s war with Hamas had turned into a much larger movement by Tuesday as students across the nation set up encampments, occupied buildings and ignored demands to leave.
  Protests against the war had been bubbling for months but kicked into a higher gear after more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Colum
  
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• Lakers must turn around second-half offensive woes in playoffs series against Nuggets

  23-04-2024 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  DENVER — There’s been a common theme for the Lakers in their two losses to open their first-round playoffs series to the Denver Nuggets.
  A strong start, especially offensively, to earn an early advantage over the defending NBA champions.
  What’s followed in both games is that the Nuggets have made adjustments and the Lakers have gotten away from what’s worked earlier in the games, and the offense has bottomed out.
  This was most evident in Monday night’s heartbreaking
  
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• Lakers must turn around second-half offensive woes in against Nuggets

  23-04-2024 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  DENVER — There’s been a common theme for the Lakers in their two losses to open their first-round playoffs series to the Denver Nuggets.
  A strong start, especially offensively, to earn an early advantage over the defending NBA champions.
  What’s followed in both games is that the Nuggets have made adjustments and the Lakers have gotten away from what’s worked earlier in the games, and the offense has bottomed out.
  This was most evident in Monday night’s heartbreaking
  
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• Lakers must turn around second-half offensive woes against Nuggets

  23-04-2024 23:32 via ocregister.com
  
  DENVER — There’s been a common theme for the Lakers in their two losses to the Denver Nuggets to begin their first-round playoff series.
  A strong start, especially offensively, to earn an early advantage over the defending NBA champions.
  What’s followed in both games is that the Nuggets have made adjustments and the Lakers have gotten away from what was working earlier in the games, and the offense has bottomed out.
  This was most evident in Monday night’s heartbreaking 10
  
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• USC loses former 4-star Brandon Gardner to transfer portal

  23-04-2024 23:28 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The kid from Down Under is the only one left.
  The final domino in a monthlong USC program overhaul dropped Tuesday, as redshirt freshman forward Brandon Gardner has submitted paperwork to enter the transfer portal, his mother Tameka Gordon told the Southern California News Group. The former four-star recruit out of New York was the last unknown in the mass exodus that’s followed longtime coach Andy Enfield’s departure for SMU, holding out for weeks under new coach
  
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• John Phillips: California’s fast food follies

  23-04-2024 23:10 via ocregister.com
  
  On April 1st, California’s brand new $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers took effect, and surprise surprise fast food chains are jacking up their menu prices across the board.
  According to data from Kalinowski Equity Research and cited in The New York Post, Wendy’s has hiked prices by roughly 8 percent, while Chipotle raised theirs by 7.5 percent, Starbucks went up by about 7 percent, Taco Bell by 3 percent, and Burger King increased theirs by 2 percent
  
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• Pearl Jam, Neil Young with Crazy Horse top the Ohana Festival lineup

  23-04-2024 22:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Ohana Festival curator and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder announced the lineup for the 8th annual Ohana Festival, which is scheduled to return to Doheny State Beach in Dana Point for a three-day weekend Sept. 27-29.
  Headlining the first and third night in celebration of its newest album, “Dark Matter,” Pearl Jam is set to play on Friday, Sept. 27 and Sunday, Sept. 29, and Neil Young & Crazy Horse on Saturday, Sept. 28.
  This year, the Ohana Festival is featuring over 35 artists,
  
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• Brianne Weiss and Orange Lutheran softball focused on playoffs after ‘dominating’ regular season

  23-04-2024 22:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowOrange Lutheran’s Brianne Weiss entered the softball season excited for challenges that would bring out the best in her team and her pitching.
  “Orange Lutheran has had one of the strongest schedules in the country, and we always look forward to that,” she said. “I’m also preparing to go to Notre Dame next year, so I really want this high school season to be super intense for
  
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• Is South Carolina a cure for blue-state blues?

  23-04-2024 22:44 via ocregister.com
  
  GREENVILLE, S.C. — Jen Hubbell ​b​ecame a real estate agent ​in Greenville, South Carolina, because she ​b​elieved a good life started with a good home, and now her phone​ buzzed regularly w​ith ​calls from out-of-state clients who believed they could find ​b​oth things in ​her city.
  ​M​any were staunch conservatives ​f​rom deeply blue states such as New York, Washington and California, fed up with th
  
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• Senate moves ahead with massive aid bill for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan

  23-04-2024 22:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By Mary Clare Jalonick | Associated Press
  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to move ahead with $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, bringing the bill to the brink of passage after months of delays and contentious internal debate over how involved the United States should be abroad.
  The vote to end a filibuster drew the support of 80 senators — 10 more than supported the bill when the Senate first passed it in February — virtually guaranteeing
  
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• What can a judge do if someone is really disruptive in court? Ask the lawyer

  23-04-2024 22:26 via ocregister.com
  
  Q: Given some of what is happening out there, are there basics about what a judge can do if a party in a case, or for that matter anyone else, engages in a serious misconduct during court proceedings?
  T.N., Torrance
  Ron Sokol
  A: First, a person being disruptive in a courtroom, such as engaging in outbursts, is not new. Nor is it limited to a party. Lawyers and witnesses, or a person in the gallery, may be engaged in misconduct that requires the court to take action.
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• UCLA’s Jay Toia back at practice after withdrawing from transfer portal

  23-04-2024 22:25 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA defensive lineman Jay Toia was back at practice Tuesday for the first time publicly after announcing Monday that he’d withdrawn his name from the transfer portal.
  Toia entered the transfer portal Thursday and did not participate in two practices, including the Friday Night Lights event.
  UCLA football coach DeShaun Foster told the Southern California News Group on Monday that Toia was back in the facility and participated in a team meeting.
  College football is in the final week of the
  
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• Sen. Laphonza Butler’s disappointing six months in office

  23-04-2024 22:12 via ocregister.com
  
  After longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein died in office last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler as her replacement. It was a surprise because she was not a politician, but a lobbyist. That flipped the usual career path. Butler also decided not to seek a full term as senator.
  Before her appointment, she was the president of EMILY’s List, which funds the campaigns of pro-choice women candidates. Before that, she was a leader of the SEIU State Council, one of the state’s most
  
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• 10 cutest Pixar Fest treats coming to Disneyland

  23-04-2024 22:04 via ocregister.com
  
  It’s always tough to take that first bite out of Mike Wazowski’s eyeball, Nemo’s fin, Forky’s head or any of the other adorably cute sweet treats available during Pixar Fest at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure — but the second bite is always easier.
  Pixar Fest kicks off Friday, April 26 and runs through Aug. 4 at the Anaheim theme parks with more than 100 Pixar-themed foods and drinks available throughout the seasonal event.
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• Trump hush money trial transcripts to be made public

  23-04-2024 22:03 via ocregister.com
  
  Josephine Stratman | New York Daily News
  NEW YORK — New York Courts will be posting the transcripts of Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial.
  Each day’s transcripts will be posted online and publicly available before the end of the following business day, “to ensure broad and continuous public access to this extraordinarily high-profile case,” according to a release.
  Trial proceedings are not broadcast and space inside the courtroom for members of
  
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• Red states fight growing efforts to give ‘basic income’ cash to residents

  23-04-2024 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Kevin Hardy | Stateline.org (TNS)
  South Dakota state Sen. John Wiik likes to think of himself as a lookout of sorts — keeping an eye on new laws, programs and ideas brewing across the states.
  “I don’t bring a ton of legislation,” said Wiik, a Republican. “The main thing I like to do is try and stay ahead of trends and try and prevent bad things from coming into our state.”
  This session, that meant sponsoring successful legislation banning cities or c
  
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• Analysis: Voters got first true 2024 week with Trump on trial, Biden on the trail

  23-04-2024 21:51 via ocregister.com
  
  John T. Bennett | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
  WASHINGTON— The unprecedented 2024 election cycle came into focus last week, with President Joe Biden ordering milkshakes and sandwiches on the campaign trail while Donald Trump was admonished by a criminal court judge during jury selection.
  Biden worked rope lines in Pennsylvania while Trump observed a lineup of potential jurors being questioned by his legal team and New York state prosecutors. The incumbent visited a steelworkers’ unio
  
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